Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 300

Ariadne, dressed in an amethyst gown, smiled with upturned lips.

“Oh dear, I thought there’d be no audience today, so I didn’t bring the Heart of the Azure Sea.”

Had she known it would come to this, she should have worn it around her neck like an exhibit.

Yet even without it, her presence remained overwhelming. Noon sunlight illuminated her as she stood at the entrance of the banquet hall, and the fine golden and silver threads intricately embroidered across her amethyst dress shimmered with dazzling brilliance.

It was so breathtaking that several noble ladies from Rubina’s faction forgot their places and scrutinized Ariadne’s gown intently.

“Hem!”

At the displeased sound from Duchess Rubina, the noblewoman with ash-blond hair—seated beside the duchess with an empty chair deliberately placed between them—cleared her throat loudly.

This noblewoman, who enforced discipline like a drill sergeant, was none other than Countess Isabella de Contarini, clutching her swollen, full-term belly.

‘What on earth is she doing seated there?’

Ariadne thought Isabella truly had remarkable talent. Rubina surely despised no one more than Isabella—after all, wasn’t she the very woman who bestowed upon Rubina’s son the infamous reputation of a continent-spanning playboy and drove him into seclusion within the Pisano territories? Her half-sister was not only clever but also possessed impressive audacity.

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Isabella herself believed she had admirable tolerance—though admittedly, she’d do anything for money.

The reason Isabella became Rubina’s pawn traced back to Camellia’s invoice.

“What is this!”

On the very day Isabella had gone to pay her respects to Duchess Rubina, she received an invoice from the House of Castiglione and cried out in despair.

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